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If you use Flickr, you may be a famous dork |
| Published: July 23, 2007, 12:00 pm |
| Tags: miscellaneous, my opinion, controversy |
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Virgin in the past has been caught out doing the wrong thing (mainly refusing to hire "older" workers - i.e. those over the age of 30). Now they have stooped even lower than that.If a picture of you has been posted to Flickr, then there's a chance that you could be on a big billboard somewhere in Australia, and labelled as a "loser" too.With all the money that Virgin has, you would think that they would be able to fork out the money to hire their own models to be in the photos, or use photos where the people in them have approved their use by Virgin. What Virgin has done seems close to defamation in my opinion. And the use of photos of children is also a concern. The last thing young teenagers need is to have their faces plastered on public billboards along with slogans indicating them to be dorks or losers.Virgin 'in the wrong' on adsVIRGIN Mobile has been accused of breaching people's "moral rights" after it took images from a popular photo-sharing website without asking permission [ Full article ] |
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